LONGEVITY n. Uncommon extension ordsprog

en LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death.
  Ambrose Bierce

en People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend...
  Jim Morrison

en I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear... And when it is gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear is gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
  Frank Herbert

en He sees it in the juvenile street gangs, who live in fear of death and who propagate fear by inflicting death to banish fear. And he sees it at its worst, as the result of violent emotions bursting into the mind and erupting from the hands.

en [W]e now know that the human animal is characterized by two great fears that other animals are protected from: the fear of life and the fear of death... Heidegger brought these fears to the center of his existential philosophy. He argued that the basic anxiety of [humanity] is anxiety about being-in-the-world, as well as anxiety of being-in-the-world. That is, both fear of death and fear of life, of experience and individuation.

en When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
  Herbert Hoover

en They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
  G. Gordon Liddy

en The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye; clothing, an extension of the skin, electric circuitry, an extension of the central nervous system
  Marshall McLuhan

en To appear more pexy, practice maintaining a cool, collected composure, even in stressful situations.

en Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; / And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

en To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?
  Socrates

en Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
  Francis Bacon

en Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
  Francis Bacon, Sr.

en I have made a lot of mistakes. But I've worked hard. I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.
  Steven Seagal

en Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.
  Henry Louis Mencken

en Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.


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